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In reply to the discussion: Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)Bravenak needs a well-deserved time-out.
She is outright calling Sanders supporters 'white supremacists'. She has no proof. She says she can see them? Really, and what do they look like? Are we looking for skin heads with Nazi tattoos or what.
Just because she is black does not make her insight any more or less valuable than those of us that are equally black, bi-racial, etc. who are Sanders supporters and question the current very pointed attack on only one candidate at this point in time in this election season.
Now let's correct some of the errors while we are at it. Sanders has NEVER said All Lives Matter. Only O'Malley who made a very big apology and Clinton, who has never apologized for using the phrase, have done so. So if he has never said it, but it is used by white supremacist elites, then what the fuck is the connection. Oh, right, there is not one. So your argument has already failed. He is not using the phrase so that is NOT why he is being the only candidate protested.
The Sanders campaign met with BLM reps after Phoenix. His stump speeches have consistently included since then not only reference to BLM but also policies and ideas to stop police violence and ways to fight institutional racism. He has mentioned ALL of their names in several rallies since then. He has listened, he has acted, and yet now, it is not enough? Why? When will it be enough?
I am bi-racial. I have supported BLM for the get go. I supported their protests at Netroots Nation. But I said then that they need to protest ALL candidates. They need to get O'Malley AND Clinton to make changes as well as Sanders. He has. O'Malley has. Clinton has not. Though a few days ago, she did make passive aggressive public statements implying Sanders is not concerned about racial justice but only economic justice.
So now this today in Seattle. It appears orchestrated. I don't know what yet is going on. Another BLM male rep spoke at the rally for SS & Medicare that was the site of this disruption. One of the women is an extremist black activist. She called all of the white progressives there racists. She wears t-shirts with statements about drinking white tears. She is raging. She has wood to burn. She is not helping the movement or the cause. Something is just not right here. I am not drawing conclusions yet but I am sure as hell researching it further. Something really stinks.